Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:42:44 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] Message-ID: <201002011142.46490.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100201040016.B46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100201040016.B46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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--nextPart1611814.25ULi7BySM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > > > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X > > > releases. The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based > > > disk didn't get MFCed to stable/7. =C2=A0Even if it was we're already > > > something of a heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and > > > DVD) so my plan all along had been to phase in the memstick > > > image for stable/8 and at the same time drop CDs-with-packages. > > > > FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands > > how to read the install off a DOS device :) > > Still to figure out how your method - using Luigi's syslinux boot off > a FAT slice on a stick - works when 7's sysinstall can't see USB > disks? 7 _can_ see USB disks just fine, it has nothing to do with the USB=20 stack. The problem was purely that sysinstall did not look at certain=20 candidates for source media due to some old assumptions in the code.=20 The patches in 8.x to allow it to install "from USB" just changed it=20 to look harder for UFS source media. IMO FAT32 is more flexible anyway since 99.9% of all USB sticks already=20 come formatted using it, and 99.9% of all computers with USB ports can=20 read and write it. =46WIW there is a tool that is shipped with some Linux distros which can=20 take a CD/DVD image and munge it onto a USB stick. Unfortunately it=20 doesn't work on FreeBSD because I can't get the loader to read from the=20 USB stick directly which means I need to make an MFS for sysinstall=20 which contains the loader, kernel and sysinstall MFS. If such an image=20 were shipped as part of the build then this tool could be used by end=20 users to convert the ISO image themselves. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1611814.25ULi7BySM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLZiqO5ZPcIHs/zowRAoSQAJ9wkzAPjOdafjZBJiX57uqwPuaYKQCeILiE VSggqKBpfE9WjO2m+0xJ/eI= =GlN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1611814.25ULi7BySM--
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